Slack is down • Hacker News Board

Re: Slack is down

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Post by rootusrootus » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 5:03 PM UTC

pwned1 wrote: post #245

This site seems to be lagging as well. Or is it just me?

It's quite fast for me.

Edit: Not consistently, I guess. 9 out of 10 times it responds instantly, then it lags once in a while.

Re: Slack is down

#272

Post by glouwbug » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 5:03 PM UTC

Time to slack

Re: Slack is down

#273

Post by peter_d_sherman » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 5:03 PM UTC

For some reason, today, HN seems exceedingly exceedingly slow (to me) after logging in...

Without being logged in, things are as fast as they usually are -- but post log-in, SLOWWWER THAN MOLASSESS...

I tried this several times; why this is, I can only wonder...

To quote Bill and Ted... "Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K..."

Re: Slack is down

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Post by aliljet » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 5:03 PM UTC

Slack has been a uniquely iffy service. I wonder if there's a solid decentralized alternative.

Re: Slack is down

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Post by dhbradshaw » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 5:03 PM UTC

We just had to route around this so we're trying out chat.google.com for the first time. Seems ok.

Re: Slack is down

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Post by king_magic » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 5:03 PM UTC

Slack has been failing - hard - the past few months. Yeah, I get it, lots of remote workers - but Slack has had months now to prepare for an onslaught given the trends with COVID. Simply not acceptable.

Re: Slack is down

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Post by sofixa » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 5:04 PM UTC

overlordalex wrote: post #232

DarkContinent wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's marked as an outage now.

Interestingly their uptime for the quarter is still 100% despite a full-red dashboard. I wonder if that's something that is calculated only after an outage is resolved

Well until the issue is resolved you can't know how long you've been down for, so you can't actually update the uptime.

Re: Slack is down

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Post by ryanisnan » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 5:04 PM UTC

While Slack is down, let's remind ourselves that it is not the end of the world. To their ops team, good luck in sorting out the root cause(s), to mitigating their re-occurrence, and to emerging the other side a stronger team. You've got this.

Re: Slack is down

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Post by Merman_Mike » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 5:04 PM UTC

ajkjk wrote: post #233

ghostpepper wrote: post #224

Earlier quoted context omitted.

and yet they're still proudly proclaiming: "Uptime for the current quarter: 100%"

Every time this kind of thing happens HNers love to grip about how the status pages aren't correct yet. It's so weird -- like the people freaking out about the outage are going to be updating their uptime trackers right now or something. Who cares? It'll be fixed later.

I think the point is that a "Status Page" should show the accurate, current status of the system. Not a place holder for "we'll fix it later". People look at a status page to know what's happening now.

Re: Slack is down

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 » Mon, Jan 04, 2021, 5:04 PM UTC

Just a note, if your company uses G Suite, chat.google.com exists and is basically an entire Slack clone. We use it as a backup when Slack goes down (obviously doesn't help for bots and ChatOps we've set up, but works well for realtime work chat).